Runpod, Remote - USA
We're a small, remote-first team. We take ownership seriously, move fast, and ship work that more than a million developers rely on every day. We're looking for people who care deeply, build with urgency, and want to matter at scale.
Learn more in our CEO's funding announcement: https://www.runpod.io/blog/one-million-developers.
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) to join our team. This role is pivotal in ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of our large-scale distributed systems. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of cloud-native architectures, automation-first testing strategies, and expertise in validating complex, high-performance infrastructure. Key Aspects of Our Testing Approach:
As one of the first engineers on Runpod’s QA team, you’ll have a unique opportunity to shape our testing strategy, automation frameworks, and quality standards as we scale. You’ll work across our entire platform, including GPU Pods, Serverless endpoints, batch jobs, Instant Clusters, storage, and billing systems. Our infrastructure spans GraphQL APIs, Go services running on thousands of GPU hosts worldwide, and complex event-driven pipelines.
Quality is embedded directly into our engineering process, not treated as a final checkpoint. You’ll collaborate closely with Engineering and SRE teams to review code, build integration and end-to-end tests, and identify issues before they reach production. We take a data-driven approach to quality, prioritizing measurable results, actionable insights, and continuous improvement.
As an SDET, you’ll play a critical role in building scalable testing frameworks, validating complex distributed systems, stress-testing cloud infrastructure, and driving reliable deployments through automation. This is a high-impact opportunity to help establish the foundation of QA at Runpod while directly influencing the reliability, performance, and scalability of our growing platform.
Runpod is the AI Developer Cloud. More than one million developers, from indie researchers to teams running frontier models in production, use Runpod to experiment, train, fine-tune, deploy, and scale AI on one platform. The platform has processed more than 20 billion inference requests. We closed a $100M Series A in June 2026. We're at an inflection point for AI infrastructure, and we're building the platform the next generation of developers will depend on.
Runpod is committed to maintaining a workplace free from discrimination and upholding the principles of equality and respect for all individuals. We believe that diversity in all its forms enhances our team. As an equal opportunity employer, Runpod is committed to creating an inclusive workforce at every level. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
We welcome every qualified candidate eligible to work in the United States; however, we are currently unable to sponsor employment visas.
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